It will be fascinating to see what they come up with. $50 million for just the upper stage is so expensive compared to Falcon 9. According to the numbers in the article, SpaceX can launch 3 Falcon 9s for the price of that one upper stage.
And potentially $100 mil for the 4 engine variant of the upper stage. The rumor was that the real costs were uncompetitive, but I wouldn’t have guessed this much.
It will be fascinating to see what they come up with. $50 million for just the upper stage is so expensive compared to Falcon 9. According to the numbers in the article, SpaceX can launch 3 Falcon 9s for the price of that one upper stage.
And potentially $100 mil for the 4 engine variant of the upper stage. The rumor was that the real costs were uncompetitive, but I wouldn’t have guessed this much.